Once a stronghold of the solid Democratic South, the state, like the rest of the region, has become firmly Republican in recent years.

He needed to hold on to the support of the Democratic South.

In the Democratic South, 66 percent of white men voted Republican.

Tennessee after the Civil War was part of the Democratic South for about a century.

The Democratic "Solid South" had long been a frustration to Republican ambitions.

Corporations moved down to the once-solidly Democratic South and brought with them traditional suburban Republican voters.

He quickly made many enemies across the majority Democratic antebellum South.

Most notably, the once solidly Democratic South realigned to the Republicans in presidential voting in the late 1960's.

This trend mirrors a national political realignment that has seen the once solidly Democratic South become increasingly dominated by Republicans.

Jim Crow laws were a product of the solidly Democratic South.